Immortalists

<p>His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth century the subject of best-selling biographies and a hit movie as well as the inspiration for a dance step--the Lindy Hop--that he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished on Lindbergh one story has remained untold until now: his macabre scientific collaboration with Dr. Alexis Carrel. This oddest of couples--one a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning surgeon turned social engineer the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the skies--joined forces in 1930 driven by a shared and secret dream: to conquer death and attain immortality.</p><p>Part <em>Frankenstein</em> part <em>The Professor and the Madman</em> and all true <em>The Immortalists</em> is the remarkable story of how two men of prodigious achievement and equally large character flaws challenged nature's oldest rule with consequences--personal professional and political--that neither man anticipated.</p>